if you any and businessman the you must will announce because lives in the village of group has one hundred twenty kilometers from vilnius he runs a lucrative business selling the mushrooms and berries that grow on his land but another source of income is also his hobby. if you walk around the whole park you'll cover two color matters the park contains one hundred thirteen different open air sculptures. in soviet times the sculptures held pride of place and if you end in cities and towns. after the fall of the soviet union they were taken down and fell into neglect. that prompted the you must to set up a pocket dedicated to lets you ania's sunday of history. this open

a museum welcomes visitors only around and there's no shortage of them into. foreigners and lithuanian tonight come here to get a glimpse into the country's relatively recent past. here people learn something about socialism and what we went through in those times . the iron curtain weighed down very heavily on the soviet union the outside world knew little about this country. in one nine hundred ninety decided to split from the soviet union. parliament that by the tout as landsburg has declared the republics independence have thousands back to the decision rallies became a constant feature in central vilnius with demonstrators demanding that moscow recognize its un to statehood. first the speaker said emotional words

about freedom then the craze began singing literally as. many people how to raise in their eyes they couldn't sing along because they were so overcome with emotion they saw that something was indeed changing they felt they could no speak up with fire to fear. moscow saw all the developments in this way as a slap in the face tanks and special forces were sent to the us i think. the kremlin felt that flexing its muscles would be enough to compel the gulps of the republican to backing down. this was when we knew we told him we had no right to rejoin the soviet union we have not been elected to do that if the. massacre followed.

the television center in film history as a soldier to night january fourteenth and. the building of seats within a short time is you a news independent television. i know most. of you know we are being attacked why. we have been i can see is shots turmel science. they have seized the twentieth radio center. is an anchor for a state run t.v. channel but live report was a moment of triumph for the young journalist but her moment of glory came with a price. i knew that they used access to break the dogs to get the deer this patch has been left here as a reminder of those events. night fountains of people resolve to stop the troops by acting as

a human shield. in order for moscow said the troops were to fire blank shells. and get it was among the residents who protected the television center when the troops began firing and galileo was injured. yeah i think i managed to crawl away i thought that i had been able to get away from that town after all and at that very moment my leg was caught between the caterpillar tracks and the sound came to holt. now the former bookkeeper has to use a wheelchair and receives a disability grant. freedom was worth that sacrifice i have no regrets and believe it's my destiny. fourteen residents of vilnius died sacrificing their lives from lithuania as

independence in one thousand nine hundred one. the new state government launched a vigorous campaign against the soviet legacy of bolton that equated soviet symbols to nazi ones. nowadays made ninth the date marked by soviet republics for the victory of a fascist germany is seen as just another ordinary day by mostly few eons. developed in lithuania made a name for it is no occasion for festivities yes some people here did fight for that but this way has nothing to do with it russian politicians sometimes say we liberated the lithuanian people from nazi germany by responses the following yes you did but then you didn't bother to leave afterwards one occupation had given way to another. the fall if you a new got its independence war veterans used to march through central vilnius on victory day but now they can only mark their holiday at

a military cemetery. that are you near her government has creases about miss fear where war veterans are called occupiers. the current propaganda slant is that lithuania was a second time in one thousand nine hundred eighty four when soviet troops entered the country to drive the germans. know that young people have been brainwashed into believing that war veterans are ok pyres the veterans don't feel like demonstrating in the streets you. may even once twenty ten. each of the fifteen veterans here for the. victory. despite each of them. they've decided to. just. a band of infusing asked of musicians accompany them as they march through the streets. comes from holding flowers and colorful believe. people with

nationalistic slogans lining the streets but sometimes. the war came to. the country in one thousand nine hundred ninety three. those veterans can mark their victory and commemorate fallen heroes at a cemetery. and people a lot of flowers up. but marching through the heart of the city promotes the wrong ideology that symbol. affected by the campaign against. this is december thirty first one thousand nine hundred eighty three ten zero zero eight pm that was when the first power generating unit was officially linked to the country's power grid. this footage is from the film marking the anniversary of the

ignalina nuclear power plant. the station met all the electrical needs of misuse and to may bring soviet republics. the two nuclear reactors commission the plans for more powerful. than any of the reactors at the time it would seem that this technological model inherited from the soviet union might stand a few enduring good stead after independence the country itself would have a plentiful supply of electricity and also be able to sell a surplus to others at a pretty. good. with the supply still if the radio were cutting in those years because of an economic slump but this nuclear power plant provided uninterrupted supplies of tricity to customers in lithuania bellary. less uranium consumers at the lowest price cities we pretty much be able to deliver tyranny and economy during that period of transition in fact we paved the way for

the country's further economic development. of. off to lift you and he left the u.s.s.r. its all to join the european union. if you a new was told that it could acquire e.u. membership on the condition that it shuts down the ignalina nuclear power plant. it even received funds to help dismantle the plant equipment and build storage for nuclear waste. the first reactor was closed in two thousand and four the other in two thousand and nine if you any of them joined the e.u. . where in the reactor room of the first unit nuclear fuel used to be stored underneath. it was used to generate heat and electricity and that. many of those who built the station and worked at it had to be trained in how to

dismantle it. but if you put a turbine together with my own hands after it went into service my job was to maintain and repair it but in the past seven years i've been taking all that apart again with my own hands it's a pity creating something is much better if you ask me. you and valleri good newton were made redundant when the station was shut down but there was no other work for them to to go. they were nice people working at the plant i enjoyed working there we still keep in touch with them. to certificates a photo album and the film showing the jubilee celebrations and the only mementos from those years. the european union funded the station's closure some of the money was in marked for severance pay. the allowance we were entitled to after the

stations shot daryn was four hundred dollars when the so-called crisis set in the summer was cut to three hundred and fifteen dollars that's what we get paid now. with. the decommissioning of the power plant instantly led to higher utility costs . used to sell electricity to other countries today it buys it from them energy bills grow with each passing month those who worked at the station to slash their family budgets. have you got the readings yes put them down fifty two three hundred forty seven writes how about the water hot water is ninety cold water is eighty four thats it. of course a lot so i have to say still we have to pay five times as much as we delete when we were fired back in december two thousand and nine. the former employees

of the ignalina power plant will have to survive on their social welfare packages until they become pensioners unemployment is at over fifteen percent if you're a new officially twenty percent of its population lives in poverty according to your a staff this u.n. year is one of the five poorest countries in the european union. welcome to the. what makes a big splash in the world of high tech business what turns events science into i can't change products they don't understand oh hell which is this got the follow russian innovators to easy majors and broad and their big breakthrough back home and spotlight on start up on technology update here on on. we've got the

future covered. if you're followed up on my death you'll get all the. planets are sort of a throwback and i can't part of our lot. and it goes back to a time when people would lie down in their forces in the wild west and pick up these future dates important into the sheriff for prosecution there's no one thing like company may follow. him when they go out there he's got weapons. and you have to hope that nothing bad. would. but we're chasing killers and you gotta keep that in mind others the two million dollar bill police arrest. but not super hero they can be killed to you know they shoot me in the head i'm going to die. and. once you've hunted

never go back to hide anything else the last time to close that was in the cool down region where men flock from all over the world to out a few centimeters to their self-confidence the first time r.t.d. goes to the border each if for the gold rush still gets people who like to look. for an engine try flights to save its culture. where cranes are protected in the first and only official nature reserve. to the reach of. russia close up on the party. a restitution. independence collective farms were disbanded land was handed over to some of its former owners. and. received

sixty hectares of land that used to belong to. his wife is an accountant they became farmers against their will. a severe economic slump began after declared independence unemployment had read its head for the first time in the post region. simply because we had. ceased to exist at any time a sudden change in the weather might ruin at least some of the crops and reduced. to nothing. there's no scope for the farm to grow the reluctant farmers don't have the money to save for a rainy day. most small farms face a similar bleak situation.

such as. its policy in the early one nine hundred ninety s. was entirely. collective farms were raised to the ground and now the process has been reversed in favor of large scale production only large farms have real prospects. but to farmers in very hard times during the two thousand and eight economic crisis. j. and his wife were on the brink of bankruptcy their farm survived only because they had been working on it without hired help they had also managed without bank loans . the influence of international capital in our banking sector amounts to nearly ninety percent when the creases came into our banks were primarily concerned about experience banks in copenhagen or always lou this is.

was of secondary importance to them they stopped issuing loans and started exports capital to help parents in banks of course all vats has an effect on the situation here. is two and a half years old but much of her life has passed without her father he's been working in germany to make a living. meanwhile mother brother and eldest sister live in. well where is your daddy. you know daddy let's look for him. there is a picture of him oh here that's right well don i know most here you know whenever she sees a man in the street the first thing she says is mom this is a man and in daddy. she says that just in case the man responds.

he tried to work gave his it's an internet cafe in germany to speak to his family by making a video call. the questions we get at school are real mindblower it's game you go with them yeah this five minutes of internet chat keeps the family in contact until sergei can be with them for real again and that could be six months away. this is typical for. which is joining the club of leading suppliers of manpower to western european countries. and now to something more to the point have you sent us the money. yesterday yes ok that will help all of those are in the rental ready. in january two thousand and nine thousand of protesters crowded the main square

provincial towns and if you as well as its capital since the start of the crisis the government has been raising taxes and cutting social benefits. found themselves on the verge of bankruptcy. people struggled for survival. for example my pension is two hundred and forty dollars in winter basic extra money for heating my flat. if i were to pay for it since two. i have to pay forty dollars over and above my pension. when enter nasa or eunice learned about government plans to tax pensions on top of other taxes he decided to join protesters despite his age and poor health. generally the sixteenth two thousand. this year meeting took place in vilnius near the parliament

building. seven thousand people gathered. police used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up the demonstrators. when one of the bullets hit and to nasa in the leg he was taken to an ambulance. to a we were the pillar truthout twin that cuts my trousers open it was a rubber bullets it's got stuck in a song i kept it as a souvenir of sorts. but. the police brutality in dealing with the demonstrators spurred the public into action. an unprecedented number of people joined the opposition within a short period of numerous protests rallies and demonstrations were held. on the people of the government bowed to pressure to make some concessions in several unpopular measures were cancelled but the move deepened the budget deficit

. you get more democracy will set in only after several generations those who once had any idea of democracy have become soviet people in spirit and so have all of our politicians. the founder and owner of the park featuring the history of soviet lithuania says he's lucky that he's lived in a free country for the past twenty years but he notes the growing nostalgia for the soviet period. the loo misses pessimistic about his country's future and he's skeptical about the government's political decisions. i don't think the european union will last for even fifty years but it will break up in the same way as the soviet union did the two are very similar in that they have both been a complete mass. of them.

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with r.t. live from moscow on receipt showing a very warm welcome to the private security firm formerly known as blackwater is on trial in the u.s. not of a location that it killed innocent civilians in iraq four years ago but because two ex employees claim the company charged washington for protecting state department staff in war signs the firm which is now called z. provides more most injuries for the u.s. in afghanistan than anyone else and has been implicated in a number of scandals in two thousand and seven and its hired guns were accused of shooting dead seventeen unarmed civilians in baghdad well despite a lengthy legal process and no one was punished over the alleged massacre the company is now set to take an even bigger role in afghanistan as the u.s. withdraws its combat troops and. reports there's concern that washington could keep covering prince hired killers. this iraqi man son nine year old allie konami was

shot dead by private american war contractors four years ago his brain found something ground between my feet on the same day dozens of other innocent iraqis were shot by trigger happy u.s. professional killers they shot like they were trying to kill everyone they can see no one at blackwater the firm for whom the hired guns work has been punished for the massacre two other private american security companies were contracted to carry out interrogations at the notorious abu ghraib prison in iraq a name synonymous now with horrific human rights violations including torture rape and murder the us supreme court recently threw out a lawsuit alleging abuse of prisoners by the contractors. in afghanistan it's reported that human rights violations and it would killings are committed by security firms on a regular basis to an extent set to undermine coalition forces counterinsurgency efforts. don't fire.